LinkCrave: the Cost of Building a Death Star
Feb 05, 2009 - By Mike Payne
Say you wanted to build yourself a death star. How much would that run you? How much dough would you (and your intergalactic empire) have to raise to build the deadliest of stars? One self-professed web designer and “outlandish thinker” has done the math– and found that the cost of a brand new Death Star would run approximately $15 Septillion. That’s 15 with 23 zeroes behind it. Personally, we think it’d be a lot cheaper to just mount a bunch of lazers on any old moon in our solar system, then you’re good to go. This one’s a bit out of our price range… [asylum]
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